{"id":1804,"date":"2012-03-21T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2012-03-27T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:21:24","slug":"in-fish-hoek-you-dont-eat-the-butternut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"In Fish Hoek you don&#8217;t eat the butternut&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the butternut eats you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/butternut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1805\" title=\"butternut\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/butternut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/butternut.jpg 376w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/butternut-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a butternut from our garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1806\" title=\"thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thumb.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thumb-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my thumb after peeling said butternut.<\/p>\n<p>So now I know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardeningblog.net\/2011\/10\/12\/why-butternut-squash-hurts-your-hands\/\">butternut juice strips the skin off your hands<\/a> if you peel it while it&#8217;s fresh. You have to cure the damn thing for a couple of weeks after picking it.<\/p>\n<p>Live and learn.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:995,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gardeningblog.net\\\/2011\\\/10\\\/12\\\/why-butternut-squash-hurts-your-hands&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250926061520\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.gardeningblog.net\\\/2011\\\/10\\\/12\\\/why-butternut-squash-hurts-your-hands\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-31 00:28:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-08 09:42:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-12 18:25:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 04:58:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 04:58:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the butternut eats you. This is a butternut from our garden. This is my thumb after peeling said butternut. So now I know that butternut juice strips the skin off your hands if you peel it while it&#8217;s fresh. You have to cure the damn thing for a couple of weeks after picking it. Live and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood","category-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}